Look at their post history, lol

It’s lazy and vapid journalism at best and a distraction from his real and serious illegal activites that the Democrats should be hammering him on faily instead.

I’m downvoting you for this, in a nutshell: you are literally blaming everyone but Trump for Trump’s shit, including but not limited to the media, Democrats, his family, etc. Your double standard is so pronounced it can be seen from the Hubble:

I’m no fan of Cheeto, but who gives a shit what his niece thinks? Especially when it’s the same take for a 100th time.

. . . while completely ignoring every single day, hour and minute that the rest of us DO give to pointing out what that asshole does.

I’m not concerned about the downvotes. I do wish there’d be more engagement from people who disagree with my comment

And here it is. To paraphrase the entirety of your oeuvre in this thread:

“Shut up, Mary, I want to hear OTHER PEOPLE talk about Donald Trump’s bad shit while I completely ignore them and focus on you.”

So parents would rather let kids watch porn than comply with age verification laws

FTFY. Pornhub doesn’t have kids, parents and guardians do. Unlike schools, Pornhub has zero in loco parentis rights or responsibilities. Instead, parents and guardians do.

But in Utah and NC, recognizing the futility of being able to comply with the laws as written, Pornhub is OVERCOMPLYING.

In those states, Pornhub is ensuring that NO ONE of ANY age watches their content. (And you’re fooling yourself if you think this has fuck all to do with protecting minors anyway.)

Right now, Ukraine is doing all the heavy lifting for the West. Every bit of the cash spent in that direction is very wisely invested, and a fraction of the cost to everyone else if (god forbid) Ukraine fails.

If we (the West) don’t spend now to help Ukraine, what will we eventually spend to help Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, and all the other lands Putin longs to annex and rob?

Right now, Ukraine is pretty much all that’s standing in the way of Putin’s visions of Russkiy Mir, and deserves everything the rest of us can dedicate to the cause: in the face of an expansionist dictator, the cause of Ukraine IS the cause of the world.

If even a small fraction of Russia’s nuclear arsenal is functional then they are still incredibly dangerous

Agreed, but it’s 50/50 as to whom. They can’t even afford to turn the keys at this point, lest that unmaintained shit blow up before it leaves Russian airspace – or, more likely, doesn’t even get off its Russian launchpad.

If he could have, he would have, but Putin knows if he even tries he unleashes full MAD.

I’m not saying he won’t or never would, just saying that for all the threats and saber-rattling, he’ll only do it when he himself is already damned.

That pic is some potent birth control, anyway.

If the Republican nominee is anyone but Trump, we’ll see Trump run as an independent and split the vote.

That would be . . . interesting. Civil war among non-Dem voters, for sure.

LOL

Thank you, I was wondering about that. It’s not often Barbra Streisand gets brought up in political threads outside a Streisand effect comment, and there are dozens of heavyweight Hollywood activists for Democratic causes, so out of a pretty large crowd “Ryan Reynolds and Barbra Streisand” seemed oddly specific.

Now I know. Huh.

But someone should tell Boebert that if ANYONE had known Ryan Reynolds and Barbra Streisand had these magical powers, that cunt would have been out long before now – and NOT just to the eastern hills.

Jesus, that almost sounds like sanity.

Media is all about elevating opinion to the level of proven fact these days.

As an aside, the one thing that shocked me the most throughout the runup to the referendum is that everyone involved knew that it would gut the Good Friday Agreement by putting a hard border back into Ireland, but NO ONE talked about it. NO ONE.

Whenever Ireland was brought up during Brexit discussions (rarely) it was dismissed, as rapidly as possible, as one of those things that would be resolved after the passing of the referendum – along with every other reasonable concern that got shoved aside in the run up – and of course never was, along with the rest of the shit they swore they had a plan for and of course did not.

Because they had no answer, not even a hint of a clue. The Troubles simmered for several hundred years, the Good Friday Agreement ended them – and the pro-Brexit crowd literally could not have cared less what Pandora’s box they would be opening in Ireland by putting a hard border back in.

It is ONLY because of the Irish people on both sides of that border, and NOT Westminster, that The Troubles have not begun again. The Irish themselves have kept the post-Brexit peace in spite of Brexit, with zero shits given by the pro-Brexit crowd at any point before or after.

edited to add: I know there is a lot more nuance to the GFA than simply a hard border, I am speaking only in terms of how Brexit could easily have brought back hostilities, etc.

I contract for mental health charity. Do t even get minimum wage. We aren’t fully trained and have 1 phone line.

That is obscene; people in crisis deserve so much more. THANK YOU for doing what you do. I hope your goodness to others in need finds its way back to you, multiplied, and that your new year gives you all that you have hoped for it.

The funny thing is that while your point is solid, he’s not wrong. He’s talking about a group of people happy to knowingly work for the same company that makes its delivery drivers piss in bottles, treats fulfillment staff as disposable, engages in open unionbusting, provides hazardous working conditions, openly embraces counterfeit goods and scam listings, and does everything in its power to drive legit sellers off the site, but that’s all good because it doesn’t affect THEM.

And now it does. Amazon has finally come for these employees who were a-okay with Amazon fucking everyone but them.

It’s a shitty thing to do, but Amazon is a shitty company to work for, and it was foolishness to expect Amazon’s usual employer fuckery would not ever affect them too. I don’t hate them like the other guy, and I do hope they land feet first somewhere else, but he’s not wrong: this is much more a Leopards Ate My Face headline than Shocker: Reputable Company Mistreats Innocent Workers.

If you work in mental health, then you know it’s exceptionally EASY to make a person in crisis even worse off than before they called you.

I am glad that YOU care about your clients, but I have a very hard time imagining that they do: a for-profit that is running a monetary scam like this one doesn’t give two shits about the people that call, and probably doesn’t even have sufficient or even trained staff, because scammers only care about one thing, and it’s NOT the client.

They weren’t just a subscription service, they were also manipulating reviews (using deceit to lure people in and then making it impossible to cancel their service). They were also trying to ensure that any time someone did manage to cancel, they got charged for another month by screwing with the billing cycles (“exploited delay in cancellation processing to issue additional charges”).

Just what someone in crisis needs, right? Find a different hero to cheer, like the guy in the mirror who cares about his clients: these people ain’t it.

TL;DR: Accept the possibility (and probability, IMO) that this closure may be saving lives by keeping people off the phone and out of subscription-model MH assistance with promises of help that are likely NOT forthcoming.

Trump is not the endgame, the voters behind him are and they do not change

They do not change because the propaganda that separates them from seeing others as equal fellow human beings is not changing. The propaganda keeps its consumers’ own fears and angers stoked and ready to point wherever it is wanted at the moment, and uses known tactics to do so.

It’s an ongoing problem because the emotions, and the propaganda that keeps them outraged, is always there, always on, always pushing those emotive buttons – and we allow the purveyors of this media to do so legally.

Our judiciary, which has had multiple opportunities to regulate “news” that is not news at all by requiring it to self-label as entertainment or hold itself to actual journalistic standards, has repeatedly declined to do so.

Stop the foreign-paid propaganda and “news” and a LOT of this shit crawls back under the rock whence it came.

I’m not proud this made me cackle out loud, but I’m also not ashamed, lol

No, but there is transparency. On Reddit, you knew it was going on, but unless you had extended mod or admin powers, you could never prove it, and the admins didn’t usually want to stop it.

Here, you may not be able to stop it, but it’s easily proven by anyone, mod or not, willing to deep dive into the modlog. AND the admins act, even if instance by instance. So refreshing.

THANK YOU. And the admins. Seriously.

And above all, for the transparency involved.

I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted; out of curiosity I just now tried it on Windows myself (Google Chrome 120.0.6099.130 Official Build 64-bit) by typing mozilla.org, clicking “Firefox downloads” at the top, and selecting the one for Windows. It sailed through almost instantly.

BUT - just because it worked for me personally on a completely different machine, OS, and installer doesn’t mean OP is misrepresenting what happened to him; competitive app blocking has certainly happened with Edge. For all we know it’s some Google A/B trial bullshit, no telling at this point.

Folks this is a troll who created the account two hours ago.

That’s the real public service announcement. Many thanks.